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Chinese team thrashed Russia 5-0 in the second leg of this exhibition game on 26th,February. The scorers were Jin Yan(13), Zhao Lihong(18), Zhang Ouying(48; 50), Bai Lili (65).

China

Gao Hong
Wen Lirong
Wang Liping
Fan Yunjie
Zhao Lihong
Bai Jie
Liu Ying
Liu Ailing (Qiu Haiyan)
Pan Lina (Sun Wen)
Zhang Ouying
Jin Yan

Russia

Svetlana
Tatiana
Yulia
Galina
Larissa
Natalia
Egorova
Marina
Alexandra
Karasseva
Irina

Other news
It was said that three of the Russian players have been invited by the Shangdong club to try out for for the team's Chinese Women Football League next season. If selected it would be the first time in history that foreign players have played for a Chinese club team.

Chinese players and coach
prepare to start the match

China 4 Russia 2 ...........Match details
By Lei Ning

The Russian Team, 13 of them played in WWCup '99, arrived at Panyu three days before the match and stayed at the same hotel as the Chinese National Team.

For the first game, the starting line-ups from both sides were almost like WWCup '99 except that Sun Wen was on the bench., and midfielder Pan Lina from Shanghai made her debut for national team. The match was played in front of a crowd of over eight thousand in drizzling rain. The host team pressured the Russian team (blue jerseys) and within a few minutes both Chinese forwards, Zhang Ouying and Jin Yan had shots on goal. Russia side made some trouble with their counter attacks and the first goal was by Russia who were busy defending in 23th minute. Their No.11 Larissa broke away from the Chinese defenders who were playing an offside trap and put the ball in the net.

Just a few minutes later top striker Jin Yan equalized for China. The game was played almost completely in the Russian half because of their limited ability but faulty finishing prevented China from scoring. Ten minutes after the break, striker Zhang Oying scored another goal for China. Then superstar Sun Wen came on for newcomer Pan Lina. Top Russian player No. 10 Natalia headed the ball into the net after collecting a freekick from the right flank in 80th minute to even the game at 2-2. In the last ten minutes Sun Wen and an own goal from Karasseva helped China to win their first match of the millenium 4-2.

Kristin Aarones from Norway, Sissi from Brazil,
Sun from China receive their awards.
(From left to right)

Chinese finish Taiwan trip and Sun gets award from FIFA
By Lei Ning

Chinese team finished their Taiwan trip on January, 22 with three wins. China defeated their rival from Taiwan for the first time in 1989,and since then China has held onto its winning record.

The day before yesterday superstar Sun Wen and Wang Junshen, vice-president of Chinese Football Association left for Belgium from Taibei city to attend FIFA annual ceremony. Sun Wen is the new queen of football with her perfect performance at WWC '99.

Final results of Hong Kong tournament
By Lei Ning

Chinese team humbled the promising Falcons from Nigeria 3-1 in the final of the Hong Kong four-nations tournament on January 16, 2000. Substitute forward Zhang Ouying scored two goals for China. WWC '99 star Sun Wen played the game for 90 minutes and added a goal to the scoreboard as well. There were seven Chinese players who had played against USA at WWC '99 final in the starting line-up. The Hong Kong team reached the third place with a 2-0 win over South Korea in an earlier match.

Hong Kong tournament results and news
By Lei Ning

China 6 - South Korea 0 China, the runner-up at WWC '99 hammered South Korea 6-0 in the first day of Hong Kong four-nations tournament.

This time Chinese coach Ma just took 23 players to Hong Kong when Wu Chuan from Guangdong, Pu Wei from Shanghai and Fan Chunling from Beijing had to go back their teams. Although most of players in the starting line-up are from the reserve team, there was no way for South Korea to keep of the strong Chinese front line attack in front of over twenty thousand fans. Chinese forward Jin Yan led the opening for China with a hat-trick and the other goals came from Zhang Ouying, Liu Ailing and Liu Ying. South Korea team didn't even get a chance to shoot and their one corner came from the Chinese center defender's fault.

Nigeria 3 - Hongkong 1
The Falcons from Africa met a strengthened Hong Kong team in the earlier match, because there are six active players from Shanghai ,four players from Dalian and veteran Wei Haiying who was former Chinese national team forward and migrant from mainland in the host's line-up. Stella Mbachu , Nkechi Egbe and Maureen Mmadu from Nigeria assisted visitor to reach the final with three goals. Chen Jinyu from Shanghai,19 years-old young headed a ball into the Nigerian goal in 60th minutes.

Other
China will play Nigeria in the finals on 16th,January. Super star Sun Wen will fly to Brussels, the capital of Belgium with her coach Ma Yuanan and accept the award as top scorer and the MVP of WWCup ?99 from FIFA on January, 23.th At the same time big name stars like Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina), David Beckham (England) and Rivaldo (Brazil) will be present and accept the awards from FIFA at the ceremonypresident of the federation is just plain stupid. .

Hong Kong Tournament 2000
By Lei Ning

The four-countries tournament will be held between the14th and 16th of January in Hong Kong. China, Nigeria, Hong Kong and South Korea ( replaced Brazil) will take part. Chen Yoqing from the Hong Kong Football Federation disclosed that most of host team members would be consisted of some famous players from the mainland. This would include former Chinese National Team players Zhou Yang,Sui Qingxia,Gao Hongxia. Former striker Wei Haiying who played 1th and 2nd WWC for Chinese team and migrated to Hong Kong a few years ago will also appear in the line-up.

Chen said that the aim of the tournament is to promote the development of women's soccer in Hong Kong.
Falcons of Nigeria experiencing problems
Falcons Go To God For Help

China Completes Its Dominance Of Asian Cup '99 With One Sided 3-0 Win Over Taiwan
By Lei Ning

Gold Medal	China
Sliver	Taiwan
Bronze	Korea DPR

China PR	Chinese Taipei
0	0 (3-0)

Korea DPR	Japan
3	2

China Taiwan
3 0

[ 2] WANG Liping [ 3] FAN Yunjie [ 5] XIE Huilin / [16] Fan Chunling 46mins [ 6] ZhAO Lihong / [20] Wang Jingxia [ 8] JIN Yan / [7] Zhang Ouying 55mins [ 9] SUN Wen [10] LIU Ailing [12] WEN Lirong [13] LIU Ying [14] BAI Jie
[18] GAO Hong

[ 1] Huang Shu Mei [ 3] Yeh Yu Shuang [ 4] Chen Shu Chiung [ 5] Tseng Yueh Lu [ 6] Chen Chu Chi [ 7] Wang Mei Chuan [ 9] Lee Ming Shu [10] Lin Chi [17] Liao Ying Wan [20] Huang Chun Lan
[21] Chang Tsu Yun

Scorers
Wang Liping 16
Liu Ying 43, 45

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The Chinese National Team consists of professional players and the Taiwan Team is made up of players from middle schools and colleges, so most people felt that they knew the result before the game began. But Chinese coaching staff did not dare to lower their guard, even meeting such a weak team. Over two thousand spectators showed up to watch the final on hot day (35°c). Most of them were women and children. The Asian Football Federation General Secretary, Velappan, also attended the match. The Chinese starting line-up was the same as the one at the final of WWC '99 except for PU Wei who came home a couple of weeks because of injury. In most of the first half the match was played in Taibei!'s half. Wang Liping scored the opening goal for China in the 16th minute. The other two goals were from Liu Ying's headers in the 43th and 45th minutes. The Chinese goalkeeper, Gao Hong, just touched the ball three times in the first half time. On the other hand, goalie Huang was busiest playern for the whole game. Although Taibei team lost the game, there was no doubt that Huang prevented many more scores from their opponent with her effort. Lin Chi from the Taibei side, who was in second place in the standing of scorers, had her first shot after 50 minutes and nearly scored. China side continued to dominate but the 3-0 score remain unchanged.

The Chinese National Team has won the Asian Women Championship seven times since1986. Liu Ying was the top scorer with 11 goals. Wen Lirong was the most valuable player of this Asian Championship.

China and China Taipei (Taiwan) in Final Game of Asian Cup '99
By Lei Ning

SEMI-FINAL RESULTS
China PRDPR Korea Comments
The North Korea Team always always secretive. They disappeared form viewÚafter they returned from the USA. Even when the Chinese Youth Team playedÚfriendlies in North Korea last month, nothing was heard about theirÚNational Women's team. When Korea reappeared in this Asian Women's FootballÚChampionship, people found out that all of the coaching staff with theÚNorth Korean National team in the U.S. WWC '99 had been replaced, and atÚthe same time a few young newcomers were added to the team. In the past twoÚdays,Chinese team had two-hours tactic training every afternoon.ChineseÚhead coach Ma Yuanan would not predict the result of the game againstÚKorea, but he admitted that he had included some spot kicks in his trainingÚsession. Assistant coach Li Bi said, "We will be 100 per cent the championÚif we can defeat Korean."

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